However, many users reported that they couldn’t make an order because they were told they had a brand new account, despite having had an account for longer than ten years. Only those with an account older than June 2021 could make an order. There also seemed to be an issue with the age of Steam accounts. Even when they had though, payment methods wouldn’t work and consumers received emails telling them to re-submit them. Many users struggled to log into Steam to make their orders to the aforementioned anti-scalper technology in place. This is just the latest issue that users experienced with the system. Essentially, the two largest devices will now arrive a quarter later than first shown. For the larger devices, the 256GB model has been pushed from Q1 to Q2 2022, and the 512GB model back from Q2 to Q3 2022. The 64GB devices are set to be delivered between December and Q1 2022.

There were three tiers of orders, one for each size of device, from smallest to largest. Reservations went live on Friday, and took many users the best part of the weekend to complete due to anti-bot technology to prevent scalpers acquiring all of them. However, now it seems like the demand was greater than expected, because delivery windows are already shifting. The company also opened up pre-orders for the device, allowing customers to place a deposit for their Steam Deck. The device is a portable PC of sorts that allows users to play all of their Steam games anywhere they want to. Last week, Valve announced the Steam Deck.

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